I don't disagree, but I think there is the otherside of that same coin... What if we could do other stuff while remaining productive.
replyRather than the example of missing first steps, what if we had, "Ok Claude, prepare a few slides for my presentation, I'm going to watch my childs mid-day recital..." maybe you get a success/failure ping and maybe even need to step out for part of the event, but in another world you couldn't have gone at all.
I expect the opposite, where if you are not exploiting your newly freed time with more work, you will be left behind.
replyThis is the premise of the comic Power Nap.
Well, at some point it's up to us to say 'no.' Weekends have not always been a widely accepted ritual[1]. They only became one because of collective action.
replyDedicating any and all of your free time to work only becomes a norm if we let it.
[1]: https://www.goodwinrecruiting.com/eight-hour-workdays-and-40...
we kind of already are with our phones and Slack, the difference at this point is negligible. i personally won't have airpods in 24/7 with my kid (or ever) so if i were doing something like this, it would be through my phone, which is already something i use fairly often. not too much difference there IMO (at least anecdotally speaking)
replyI don't know what kind of work you do on a daily basis. But, the difference between sending a Slack message and sending a message to kick off an agent to chain a bunch of tasks together is a vastly lower activation barrier. I think many people will jump over that lower barrier out of FOMO, to avoid being outcompeted by those who already jumped.
replyAs an IC though, me sending a slack message is perhaps less impactful than a PL responding to a report :)
you basically just described management, where you send a slack message and kick off a bunch of tasks to your team
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